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Congratulations to the following students for receiving Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowships in support of their faculty-mentored research projects and creative activities.
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Student Name |
Major(s) |
Faculty Mentor(s) |
Project Title |
| Vishakh | Information & Computer Science | Professor Suda Tatsuya & Dr. Tadashi Nakano | Evolution and Adaptation in the Bio-Networking Architecture |
| Mona M. Ahooie | Electrical Engineering | Professor Henry Lee | Development of an Efficient Variable Optical Attenuater (VOA) in Dealing with Acoustic Reflection |
| Mohanned Yousef Alhazzazi | Information & Computer Science | Professor Renato Pajarola | RASTER: Real-Time Adaptive Simplification and Rendering of Terrain |
| Soon Ming Ang | Electrical Engineering | Professor Hamid Jafarkhani | Markov Chain and Gilbert Loss Model |
| Ahmed Bilac Azam | Information & Computer Science | Professor Thomas D'Zmura | Neural Network for Spatiotemporal Filtering in Binaural Sound Localization |
| Courtney Jane Baird | English/ Information & Computer Science | Professor J. Paul Dourish | Cognitive and Metaphorical Models of Computer Science |
| Gregoria Barazandeh | Political Science | Professor Caesar Sereseres | Increasing Disability Insurance |
| Yasaman Barmaki | Philosophy/ Studio Art | Professor Martin Schwab | Deconstruction as Illustrated Through Architecture: The Theories & Debates Surrounding these Discourses |
| Shari Rebecca Berkowitz | Psychology | Professor Elizabeth Loftus | Food Preferences and Personality |
| Gabriela Blanco | Psychology & Social Behavior/ Sociology | Professor Ji Ying Sze | Caenorhabditis elegans TRPV Ion Channel Regulates Serotonin Biosynthesis in Chemosensory Neurons |
| Yan Biao Boey | Information & Computer Science | Professor Sharad Mehrotra | Data Cleaning and Visualization in an Event-Entity Database |
| Alexandra Jane Bradshaw | Dance/ English | Professor Lisa Naugle | Alvin Ailey School Summer Dance Intensive |
| Anne Rene Brashier | Drama | Professor Lisa Naugle | Moving to Action: Developing Professional Performance and Choreographic Skills |
| Nicole Marie Byrd | Dance | Professor Janice Plastino | The Effects of Body Image on Student Performance |
| Camille Elia Campion | Psychology | Professor Virginia Mann | Spelling Proficiency of Native Speakers of Spanish: A Look at the Influence of Morpheme Structures in Spelling Errors |
| Anshuman Chadha | Information & Computer Science | Professor Cristina Lopes | Modeling Pauses in Speech |
| Rebecca Lynn Chadwick | Civil Engineering | Professor Tara Hutchinson | Correlation of Field Acquired Earthquake Intensity Measures to Structural Damage Using Synthetic Environments |
| Jenny Chien-Yi Chen | Economics | Professor Gary Richardson | The First Banking Panic in California: A Self-Fulfilled Fear Among Depositors? |
| Jeff Chen | Physics | Professor Peter Taborek | Optical Detection of Superfluid Helium Drop Oscillations |
| Joyce Yi-Tzy Cheng | Chemical Engineering | Professor William Sirignano | Development of Miniature Pre-Vaporizer with Fuel Film Evaporation |
| Daniel Chee-Ing Cheng | Biological Sciences | Professor Kenneth Baldwin | Efficiency of High Resistance Training in Blunting the Atrophy Effects on Muscles Due to Zero Gravity SIMULATED Conditions |
| Dong Kuan Chung | Biological Sciences | Professor Andrea Tenner | Characterization of CD93 Deficient Macrophages |
| Matthew Charles Critchlow | Information & Computer Science | Professor Andre van der Hoek | Improving the Management of Product Line Architectures |
| Alpay Dermenci | Chemistry | Professor Athan Shaka | Optimization of Radio Frequency Pulses for NMR Spectroscopy |
| Melissa Chua Dionisio | Biological Sciences | Professor Jeremiah Tilles | Screening of HIV Long Term Non Progressor and HIV Progressor Specific Peptides, and their Potential as Diagnostic Markers for Disease Progression |
| Natalia Dmitrieva | Philosophy/ Psychology & Social Behavior | Professor Susan Charles | Lack of Sleep, Mood, and Activity |
| Janelle Kearulani Eagle | Drama | Professor Keith Fowler | Art to Educate |
| Alisa Aun Ekk | English | Professor Linda Georgianna | The Medieval Hagiographics of Christina of Markyate and Margery Kempe: Shifts of Societal Attitudes Toward Marriage and Chastity from 12th to 15th Century Through Personal "Gender Strategies" of Sublimation and Integration |
| Golnoosh Farzaneh | Psychology | Professor Pamela Kelley | Gun Control in the U.S.: A Look at Gun Control Legislation |
| Matthew John Fawcett | Information & Computer Science | Professor Renato Pajarola | Point-Based Multiresolution Splatting for Interactive Volume Visualization |
| Philip James Garcia | Aerospace Engineering | Professor Kenneth Mease | Autonomous Unmanned Solar Aero Vehicle Research Project II |
| Matthew Adam Garfinkle | Political Science | Professor Russell Dalton | Democracy in Iraq? A Study of the Possibility of a Functioning Democracy in Post-War Iraq |
| Nareg Andre Gharibjanian | Biological Sciences | Professor Jay Calvert | Release Kinetics of Polymer-Band Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 on the Osteogenic Expression of MC3T3-E1 Osteoprecursor Cell |
| Dylan Bruce Gibson | Drama | Professor Keith Fowler | The Bard's Trail |
| Crystal T. Gonzalez | Anthropology/ International Studies | Professor Leo Chavez | Transnational Identity: A Case Study Comparison Between Chicano/a Punks in Santa Ana and Mexican Punks in Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Michael Gray | Biological Sciences | Professor Ranjan Gupta | The Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Compressive Neuropathy |
| Aisa P. Green | Psychology | Professor Charles Wright | Visuospatial Information Processing: A Behavioral Analysis of the Ventral and Dorsal Pathways |
| Dirk Hendrik Groeneveld | Information & Computer Science | Professor Tara Hutchinson | Building a Digital Classroom |
| David Allen Hallowell | Psychology & Social Behavior | Professor Carol Whalen | Palm Top Partners: Mapping the Daily Lives of Parents and Children |
| Crystal Hernandez | Dance | Professor Bonnie Homsey | A Comparative Analysis of Dance Programs at a University and Professional Dance Institution |
| Paul Kenji Hetman | Chemical Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering | Professor Vladimir Mandelshtam | Algorithm Development for Spectral Analysis on DOSY NMR Experiments |
| James Huerta | Film Studies/ Humanities and Arts | Professor Frederick Moten | Revolutionary Aspects of Collage: Music, Art and Cinema |
| Christopher Phan Huynh | Biological Sciences | Professor Guey-Chuen Perng | Evaluation of Controllable Gene Expression Using Herpes Simplex Virus Vector |
| Elise Lillard Ipock | Film Studies | Professor Fatimah Rony | The Salvaging Life: A Film About Vision, Identity, and Junk |
| Melika Jahangiri | Philosophy | Professor Aaron James | Are "Human Rights" "Legal Rights"? |
| Dave Goldwyn Jequinto | Biological Sciences | Professor Petra Wilder-Smith | In vivo Multiwavelength Spectral Mapping of Oral Malignancy |
| Dianne Marie Kam | Aerospace Engineering | Professor Melissa Orme | The Exploitation of Naturally Occurring Satellite Droplets for Advanced Manufacturing Applications |
| Mondana Karen Kazemzadeh | Biological Sciences | Professor Ghassan Kassab | Remodeling of Branching Pattern and Vascular Geometry of LCX in Hypertension |
| Michelle Kainani Kong | Biological Sciences | Professor Ghassan Kassab | The Effect of Cigarette Smoke on the Aorta |
| Matthew Joseph Korn | Biological Sciences | Professor Charles Ribak | Studies on the Effect of Cs Radiation on the Pilocarpine Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy |
| Haroon Lais | Computer Engineering/ Electrical Engineering | Professor William Tang | Development and Optimization of ZnO Sputtering Process |
| Amber Michelle Lakhani | Comparative Literature/ History | Professor Michelle Hamilton | Reflections of War: Medieval War Propaganda of the Crusades and the Reconquista |
| Weng Cheong Lao | Electrical Engineering | Professor Mehran Moshfeghi | Video and Image Annotation Program |
| Carol May Lazo | Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology | Professor James Vigil | Understanding the Graffiti Art Subculture in Southern California |
| Duy Minh Le | Biological Sciences | Professor Bogi Andersen | Characterization of GET-1 Interaction |
| Jennifer Erin Lester | Biological Sciences | Professor Douglas Tobias | Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies of the Structure and Function of Mutant Surfactant Protein B Peptides |
| Huihui Li | Information & Computer Science | Professor Stephen Bondy | Performance and Computational Processing of Fluxes in Genetic Expression within Mouse Brain |
| Charlie Lie | Chemistry/ Music | Professor William Evans | Reduction of Nitrogen with Substituted Tris-Cyclopentadienyl Lanthanide Complexes and Potassium |
| Elaine Marie Lipiz | Political Science | Professor Lisa Garcia-Bedolla | Bilingual Education in New York City and Miami: A Comparative Study |
| Patrick Lo | Information & Computer Science | Professor Tatsuya Suda | iRex Implementation in Zebra Project Proposal |
| Michelle Rene Lutes | Materials Science Engineering | Professor Martha Mecartney | Effect of Alumina on the Grain Bounding Conductivity of 8Y-CSZ |
| Wing Karl Ly | Mechanical Engineering | Professor Farghalli Mohamed | Mechanical Behavior of Nanonickel Materials |
| Cynthia Kerstin Mescher | Mechanical Engineering | Professor Mark Bachman | Protein Crystallization |
| Kristina Manam Messeih | Biological Sciences | Professor Petra Wilder-Smith | Optical Coherence Tomography |
| Fatheme Maryam Moazzami | Computer Engineering | Professor Stephen Jenks | Parallelization Process with Efficiency |
| Marshall Blake Moncrief | Psychology & Social Behavior | Professor Wendy Goldberg | Father's Perspectives and Influence on Parent-Child Co-Sleeping |
| Babak Naffas | Information & Computer Science | Professor Bruce Tromberg | Real Time Data Acquisition and Analysis |
| Angela Beth Nelson | Economics/ Psychology | Professor Mark Steyvers | Memory for Words and Images |
| David Ng | Information & Computer Science | Professor Ronald Sherman | Effect of Bacterial Pathogens on the Growth and Development of Waste-Dwelling Maggots |
| Thien Minh Ngo | Biological Sciences | Professor Christine Gall | Ampakine Treatment Decreases Ampakine Glutamate Receptors in Cells: A Closer Examination with Western Blotting |
| Vivian Thuy-Vy Nguyen | Chemistry | Professor Zhibin Guan | Synthesis of Titan-Making Multi-Domain Polymers |
| Connie Minhcanh Nguyen | Biological Sciences/ Chemistry | Professor Noo Li Jeon | Neutrophil Migration in Overlapping Chemoattractant Gradients |
| Tin Toan Nguyen | Biological Sciences | Professor Arnold Starr | GAP Detection and Cortical Evoked Potentials: Normals and Patients with Auditory Neuropathy |
| Brian Christopher Oglesby | English | Professor P. Michelle Latiolais | My Avisia Winger |
| Lilly Kathleen Pinney | Dance | Professor Mary Corey | The Interrelation of Ballet and Modern Dance |
| Jennifer Renee Puebla | Psychology & Social Behavior | Professor Roxane Silver | Coping with a National Trauma: Results from a Longitudinal Study of Responses to the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks |
| Razvan Christian Raicu | Information & Computer Science | Professor Vittorio Cristini | Mathematical Modeling and Computation of Cancer Growth: Progression and Treatment |
| Navreet Kaur Raju | Biological Sciences/ Psychology | Professor Donald Hoffman | The Effects of Stereo, Color, Shape from Motion, and Dynamically-Changing Facial Expressions on the FFA as Determined by fMRI Scanning |
| Liza Monica Rebaza | Biological Sciences | Professor Edwin Monuki | The Role of Extracellular Matrix in Generating Neurons from Human Neural Stem Cells |
| Nima Rezaei Abbassi | Chemistry/ Neurobiology | Professor Shaojun Tang | Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP): How Its Synthesis is Regulated by Synaptic Activity |
| Rachel Denise Ridnor | Sociology | Professor Belinda Robnett | Determinants of Future Mate Selection for College Students: A Case Study on the Effects of Coming from a Divorced Family |
| Jose Virgilio Romero-Mariona | Information & Computer Science | Professor Debra Richardson | Formal Specifications Based Testing |
| Helene Erika Rybol | English | Professor Adam Ormond | Motivation: What Students Want to Learn and How? |
| Sepideh Saber | Biological Sciences | Professor Michael Leon | The Location of Activity in the Rat Olfactory Bulb with Varying Positions of the Alcohol Group in the Heptanol |
| Asal Sadatrafiei | Biological Sciences | Professor Bruce Blumberg | Identification of Novel SXR Target Genes |
| Brett E. Schmitt | Anthropology | Professor William Maurer | Monetary Design: Cultural Dictation and Cross-Cultural Understanding |
| Alana Diana Shilling | Comparative Literature | Professor Jane Newman | The Mute Humanist: The Emblem and Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Imagery, Poetry, and Thought |
| Farhan I. Simjee | Computer Engineering/ Electrical Engineering | Professor Pai Chou | Power Consumption Emulation for Battery-Powered Devices |
| Ann B. Smith | Dance | Professor Lisa Naugle | Reflecting on Diversity: A Study of Choreographic Approaches |
| Lothar Werner Steffens | Chemistry | Professor Larry Overman | Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Vincorine |
| Julia Marie Stewart | Dance/ Drama | Professor Bryan Reynolds | "Hamlet" and Psychoanalysis |
| Vaya Wendy Tanamai | Biological Science | Professor Bruce Tromberg | Monitoring the Effectiveness of Chemotherapy Using Photon Migration Spectroscopy |
| Irene Shu-Hong Tang | Social Ecology | Professors Kristen Day & Marlon Boarnet | Evaluation of the California Safe Routes to School Program |
| Nancy Tran | Biological Sciences | Professor Rahul Warrior | Regulation of the Drosophila Lissencephaly 1 (DLis1) Gene |
| Annie T. Tran | Biological Sciences | Professor Cristina Kenney | Abnormal Antioxidant Enzyme Levels in Keratoconus Diseased Corneas and Its contribution to the Increase in Oxidative Damage |
| Chi-Lin Tsan | Computer Engineering | Professors Richard Nelson & John LaRue | Design & Optimization of Dielectric Mirrors |
| Arkadej Albert Udompanyavit | Information & Computer Science | Professor Gloria Mark | Instant Messaging Visualization Project (IMVP) |
| Mark Barnuevo Villamor | Electrical Engineering | Professors Richard Nelson & John LaRue | Interfacing the Macroworld with the Microworld of Microfluids |
| Jackie Woo | Political Science | Professor Caesar Sereseres | Can the United States Democratize Iraq? |
| Ryan James Wright | Biological Sciences | Professor Brian Wong | In vivo Response of Cartilage to Laser Reshaping in the New Zealand White Rabbit |
| Mike Yin | Information & Computer Science | Professor Richard Granger | Simulation of Human Cortex Using Cortical Column Theory of Memory |
Number of Proposals Submitted = 119
Number of Fellowships Awarded = 94
Number of Honorary Fellowships = 9
Total Funds Requested = $351,800
Total Funds Awarded = $206,600
For more information, please contact:
Said M. Shokair, Director
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
Student Services II, Suite 2300
Phone: 824-4189 e-mail: urop@uci.edu
